Check this link

http://www.bestpaidemail.com/cgi-bin/petra...gi?t=powerpages

How many popup are there altogether?

I will never click on their link again! :mad:

I see only one! :]

I had two, with the last one opening another popup. :frown:

I saw only one, thanks dude I'm 1 cent closer to the minimum payout. I wonder what happened if everyone traded links and everyone clicked on all of em. heh.

TJ

Only 1 popup. How many did you get, Igwong?

Try to clear up all your cookies in your browser and visit them again. You will get at least 10! :mad:

Sometimes you think you are the only one! I was a member with Bestpaid and emailed them about multiple pop ups in their login section. I rec'd reply stating there was just one(I counted 11 at that time). They also lectured me on how they need the ad $$$, etc., etc.,
Shortly after this, every email I got from them had 30+ pop ups. I never opened their mail again, deleted my account(no referrals), and emailed them that if they were offended by my complaining, and wanted me to unsubscribe, they had succeeded. This is true. Kinda messed up, don't you think?

I cancelled my account there a while ago, mostly because of the popups, which often were so eccessive they'd freeze my computer :frown: They also had one for a while which would try to make me download Korean character set (not sure which popup it was connect to, as I was always trying desperately to close them all). Just wasn't worth the .3 of a cent I'd finally get once I could see the screen again...

i got 7 popups when i clickied it the other day
then clicked again and got 3 so must be alternating or something?

I think some of the popup set a cookie in your browser so that you will not get it again within a short time. If you delete the cookie in your browser, your will get the full blown popup!

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I just checked the link, and got only 1 popup, from PopUpMoney, I think it was. I believe that program will cancel your account if you have any popups except theirs on your site.

There are certain types of sites that will give you a ton of popups, enough to freeze your browser,even. There is a voting list called TopSites, which always have a ton of popups at all their sites. They have different categories of sites, everything from freebie sites to warez and adult sites. They also use "forced voting" which is a major scam on the web among some types of sites. They promise you access to great freebies, or whatever, but you have to "vote" by clicking on a link, which gives a list of sites, and then click on several of those sites, then click on a link at the original site to get the link to the great freebie, or whatever. It will always tell you that you voted incorrectly, no matter what you do, hoping you'll go back and click on some more sites. It's a scam that's usually combined with tons of popups and "blind" (fake) links, that say click here to win a car or get great freebies, or whatever, but take you to something else. It's all about the number of banner and popup exposures they can get paid for showing.

The only way to discourage this is to never click on their popups or banners, don't vote, and get out of there as fast as you can.

There's even an ad that says that in order to make the site more "surfer-friendly" (no popups or forced voting), they need to you to do a few votes for them. This is an ad that I've seen on a variety of sites, it's a scam, too. You still don't get the download/freebie/whatever.

General Info On Popups

When I get curious about something, I'll do some research on it to find out more. I was getting a lot of popups in the past, so I did some research on popups.

If you get a popup, it may not come from the site you're currently on, it could have come from the last site you visited, or even one before that one.

There are popups called "Mother-Daughter" popups. The mother popup is a small inconspicuous popup that immediately minimizes itself, so you won't notice it. It has a timer. When the set time is reached, it spawns a daughter popup, that is just a regular, annoying popup. As soon as you close that one, the mother popup starts spawning more daughter popups, trying to keep you too busy closing those to close the mother popup. The mother popup's timer can be set to any time(s) the person wants, and the number of daughter popups can be set to any number desired, too.

So the timer can be set to spawn the first daughter a minute or more after you've left the popup site. The mother can be a pop-under (or pop-behind), too. That is one that you don't get until you leave the site, so there's less time to notice where it really came from.

Some unscrupulous web hosts will put these on a site without even telling the person who built that web page, too. I found a lot of this info through running searches that showed results on adult webmaster forums. The adult webmasters were very knowledgeable about these breeding popups. Some used them, but most hated them, and were complaining about various adult hosts that put them on sites without even telling the webmasters. They also commented that there was no reason that non-adult hosts or webmasters couldn't use these breeding/mother-daughter/time-bomb popups either.

I know for a fact that some non-porn sites do use them. In particular casino sites, or places that are just banner farms wanting you to sign up for credit cards, satellite dishes, etc.

The "mother" popup often appears on your screen as a tiny little bar, with no title, just big enough to hold the symbols for minimizing/maximizing/closing it. If you see one of these, CLOSE IT FAST! Otherwise it will start breeding more popups, until you finally close it, or the number of daughter popups is reached. As a general rule of thumb, close the popups you get first on your bar, if you start getting a lot, one of them is probably breeding more. If you just close the ones that popped up last, the breeder will just make more.

If you get a popup that's so big, you can't reach the X to close it (or the top of the window to move it where you can reach the X), there's an easy way to close them. If you use Windows, just hit your {CTRL} key and the {W}letter key together, and it will close the window that's on top.

Besides using popup killing programs, there's other ways you can stop from getting popups. Go to your computer's control panel, click on "Internet Options", then click on "Advanced", you'll get a list of things with check boxes next to them. Just uncheck "Java", and popups won't work. You can also get to "Internet Options" from the toolbar on your Internet Explorer browser. I think it's under "Tools", but I don't really remember, I only use IE when I'm absolutely have to.

Which is because I switched to the Opera browser. In Opera, just hit your F12 button for "Quick Preferences" then with one click, you can: turn off popups or turn them all into pop-unders, turn off cookies, or turn off Java, amongst other things. It's also a lot faster browser than Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, and uses less system resources. You can also turn pictures on or off with the click of a button. It also doesn't spy on you like IE or NN. The drawback is a few sites won't work properly, mostly online service sites, having to do with scanning your computer or doing things with graphics. You can always use another browser for a backup in those cases. It's also ad-supported, which means there's a standard sized banner on the top of it. If you have a small screen, you'll lose some space at the top, unless you want to buy the pro version. I haven't yet, I'm willing to put up with the loss of space at the top for the faster browser speed, no spying on me, and easy on/off popups.

Be aware, sometimes you may want popups. The address book at many email hosts is a popup. At some sites, the mail you compose is a popup. Survey forms are often popups. And some sites put their Terms of Service, Policy, etc., in popups.

This is getting a bit long, I'll continue the scoop on popups in another post. Some of them come from your own computer, not web sites!

Is Your Own Computer Giving You Popups?

There are certain programs that you may find on the web which sound like handy things to have, and they're free, too. What a deal!...........Unless you don't like popups.

Some of these programs ask you what your interests are when you download them. Whether they ask or not, they watch every website you go to,and every download and online purchase you make. Then they report all of that information they get from spying on you to their home company's computer.

The company's computer then checks it's data base of advertisers, and finds things you might buy, based on the spy info it has on you. Then it sends you popups advertising these things, whenever the company has it set to do so.

Have you ever gone to a website, like a credit card company's site, and had a popup from another company selling the same thing? Why would a place doing credit cards(or whatever)have a popup for another place doing credit cards? You might click on the popup, and they would lose business. The answer is, they don't. Have you ever gone to a website and had a popup with a top search directory of similar sites, like casinos? Webmasters aren't that stupid, they know if you click on the popup, they may have just lost a sale!

The webmasters didn't put those popups there, your computer did, thanks to your friendly neighborhood spyware.

If you have Gator, TopText, Comet Cursor, Alexa, Bonzai Buddy,Bearshare, Kazaa, iMesh, Audiogalaxy, or various other "helpful" programs or browser add-ons, that's where your popups are coming from. If you're interested in learning more, just do a search on spyware.


:eek: WARNING!!! - Some "Paid To Surf" bars install TopText or a similar program on your computer. Of course, spyware users rarely let you know what it is!! :mad:

One of many places on the web you can find out about spyware is: http://www.spychecker.com/

You can type in the name of a program you suspect, and it will tell you if it's spyware or not. Of course, their list is not complete, they can only tell you the ones they know about, and have in their database already.

Spyware is very hard to get rid of. Bonzai buddy, for instance installs 133 different files on your computer, and changes various things in your computer's registry, too. A simple uninstall won't usually get rid of spyware, it was written that way.

You can get an excellent free program called AdAware to get rid of spyware here: http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/inf...5,63806,00.html
(Be advised, some programs are written so they won't work anymore if you remove the spyware that was installed at the same time.)

Here is a free program (SpyBlocker) to just block the spyware parts and let the rest of the program work:

http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/inf...5,75483,00.html

One of the ways you may notice spyware is when it tries to "call home". It is written to do this in as sneaky a way as possible, so you won't notice it. Usually, it wraps itself up in Internet explorer when it can.

So if you have a firewall, and you're not even using IE (which I rarely do), and all of a sudden your firewall tells you IE wants to access the internet, and asks if you want it to. It's usually not IE, it's either spyware or a trojan trying to "call home"! (I've found a few trojans on my computer this way, too.) Just say NO to any programs accessing the internet unless you're using them right then, and they need to access the internet at that time.

To get an excellent free firewall (Zone Alarm), go here:
http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/inf...5,57636,00.html

(Zone Alarm is said by many software sites to be the best free firewall out there. It's very to use, too!)

By the way, if there's any other free software you want, check around the download place above. ZDNet has probably the largest list of freeware available anywhere. Check out categories, or type in keywords until you find at least one result that sounds like what you're looking for, regardless of it's price. Then click on the name of the program, off the results list. It will take you to a page that explains the program more. Again, don't worry about the price. When you're on the page explaining the program, look around the top left-hand side of the page, just to the left of the name of the program. You'll see a text link that says: "See Related Links". Click on it. That will give you a list of similar programs, including the free ones.

You can find just about any sort of program for free at ZDNet, but the descriptions are written by whoever wrote the program. ZDNet does not label which programs are spyware, and which are not. The writer of the program may say whether it is or not, but they could always lie, so check it out at spyware sites, just to make sure.

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[ 03-26-2002: Message edited by: Byzantine ]

I hate popups too,but I use popupkillers